Behnam Tajik
Visiting Researcher
Postdoc Research Fellow – Research coordinator
Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences
behnam.tajik@uef.fi
A nutritionist and A Postdoc Research Fellow in Health science. My research interests lie primarily in the role of dietary factors on the cardiometabolic diseases, mainly cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes.
Coordinator of UEF/Africa Pilot – Southern African and Finnish Higher Education Institutions’ for Health and Well-being network (SAFINET) for Facilitating collaboration between Southern African and UEF’s academia in Health science.
Research groups
Publications
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Frailty alone and interactively with obesity predicts heart failure: Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Tajik, Behnam; Voutilainen, Ari; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv; Lyytinen, Arja; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lip, Gregory YH; Tuomainen, Tomi‐Pekka; Isanejad, Masoud. 2023. ESC heart failure. 10: 2354-2361 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Frailty predicts incident atrial fibrillation in women but not in men: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Tajik, Behnam; Voutilainen, Ari; Lyytinen, Arja; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lip, Gregory Y. H.; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Isanejad, Masoud. 2023. Cardiology. 148: 574-580 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Associations of the serum n-6 PUFA with exercise cardiac power in men
Esmaili, Haleh; Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Kurl, Sudhir; Salonen, Jukka T; Virtanen, Jyrki K. 2022. British journal of nutrition. 2023; 129: 1388-1397 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Economic Recession and the Long Term Risk of Psychiatric Disorders and Alcohol Related Diseases—A Cohort Study From Eastern Finland
Jarroch, Rand; Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Kauhanen, Jussi. 2022. Frontiers in psychiatry. 13: . 794888 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Effects of whey and soy protein supplementation on inflammatory cytokines in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Prokopidis, Konstantinos; Mazidi, Mohsen; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv; Tajik, Behnam; McArdle, Anne; Isanejad, Masoud. 2022. British journal of nutrition. 2023; 129: 759-770 A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review -
Exercise and nutritional interventions on sarcopenia and frailty in heart failure: a narrative review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Prokopidis, Konstantinos; Isanejad, Masoud; Akpan, Asangaedem; Stefil, Maria; Tajik, Behnam; Giannos, Panagiotis; Venturelli, Massimo; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv. 2022. ESC heart failure. 9: 2787-2799 A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review -
Lipid levels, apolipoproteins, and risk of incident atrial fibrillation in men: A report from the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study (KIHD)
Tajik, Behnam; Tuomainen, Tomi-Pekka; Jarroch, Rand; Kauhanen, Jussi; Lip, Gregory Y H; Isanejad, Masoud. 2022. Journal of clinical lipidology. 16: 447-454 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
Lipid profile, lipid ratios, apolipoproteins, and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity in men: The Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study
Tajik, Behnam; Voutilainen, Ari; Kauhanen, Jussi; Mazidi, Moshen; Lip, Gregory Y. H.; Tuomainen, Tomi‐Pekka; Isanejad, Masoud. 2022. Lipids. 57: 141-149 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research -
The Impact of Frailty and Comorbidities on Heart Failure Outcomes
Salmon, Thomas; Essa, Hani; Tajik, Behnam; Isanejad, Masoud; Akpan, Asangaedem; Sankaranarayanan, Rajiv. 2022. Cardiac failure review. 8: . e07 A2 Review article, Literature review, Systematic review -
Dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid and alpha-linolenic acid are associated with physical capacity measure but not muscle mass in older women 65-72 years
Isanejad, Masoud; Tajik, Behnam; McArdle, Anne; Tuppurainen, Marjo; Sirola, Joonas; Kröger, Heikki; Rikkonen, Toni; Erkkilä, Arja. 2021. European journal of nutrition. Published online: 16 December 2021: 1 - 9 A1 Journal article (refereed), original research